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The stunning home of master woodcrafter and sculptor Tim Stead has been saved for the nation – after an 11th-hour fundraising campaign helped raise £450,000. The Tim Stead Trust had almost given up hope of raising the cash needed to buy the late artist’s home, which is furnished in sculpted wood made by Stead himself … Read more
His sculptures have been unveiled by the Princess Royal and the Earl of Wessex, while his most famous creation — the 6.5-ton bull in Birmingham’s shopping centre — has become Britain’s third most photographed icon, pipped to No1 only by the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye. But, suddenly, in his 85th year, the … Read more
The Countess of Wessex has become the first member of the royal family to sit for a sculptor while the process was streamed live on the internet – to raise awareness about the blind and partially sighted. Sophie Wessex, 55, who lives at Bagshot Park, in Surrey, sat earlier today for the acclaimed Leeds-born artist Frances … Read more
A top black British artist has slammed white sculptor Marc Quinn as a ‘trophy hunter’ who ‘colonised’ the Edward Colston plinth with his statue of Jen Reid. Thomas J Price criticised Quinn’s decision to erect the lifesize black resin and steel piece entitled A Surge of Power in Bristol last week and branded it a … Read more
A sculptor has admitted that he has been met with a tirade of abuse for his statue of the 19th century explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. Nick Elphick, from Llandudno, Wales, who spent two years crafting the tribute to Sir Henry, has been hit with criticism for his … Read more
Now THAT’S a road hog! Sculptor turns old car hubcaps into a stunning menagerie of creatures, from warthogs to a jaguar Ptolemy Elrington, 54, from Brighton, first began making the sculptures in 2002 The sculptor has now collected 5,000 hubcaps to turn into the animal creations Among his favourites are a jaguar on the prowl … Read more